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From: Kue2 on 26 Jan 2009 10:51
I put the computer to sleep about an hour & forth-five minutes ago.........I
was having a snooze on the bed.
I woke up & was lying in bed, when I saw the computer come out of sleep mode
on it's own & it went to the desktop.
This is where it gets really weird. After sitting at the desktop for about a
minute the next thing I knew the computer re-booted all by itself
It booted to the menu then carried on. It ended up at "start windows
normally" the f-8 screen. I got out of bed & hit the enter key.
Win7 then booted to the desktop....................what do you make of that?
I ran powercfg -devicequery wake_armed nothing shows up?

Is my computer being taken over?

What's my next trouble shooting step? perhaps exorcism?

Got any ideas ???? on this one?


From: Carlos on 26 Jan 2009 11:58
Hugh,
Sudden reboots obey to many different causes.
It might be a power supply operating at its limit which is shutting down for
protection (I had one of those!), or overheating.
Graphic card temperature can be monitored by freeware GPU-Z
(http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/)
Cannot recall right now if it checks CPU temp also.
If sudden reboots keep coming in Win 7, check booting into Vista and see if
they disappear.
If everything else fails you will have to go through the usual drill of
reseating memory sticks, running memtest, etc., etc., etc.

Carlos

"Kue2" wrote:

> I put the computer to sleep about an hour & forth-five minutes ago.........I
> was having a snooze on the bed.
> I woke up & was lying in bed, when I saw the computer come out of sleep mode
> on it's own & it went to the desktop.
> This is where it gets really weird. After sitting at the desktop for about a
> minute the next thing I knew the computer re-booted all by itself
> It booted to the menu then carried on. It ended up at "start windows
> normally" the f-8 screen. I got out of bed & hit the enter key.
> Win7 then booted to the desktop....................what do you make of that?
> I ran powercfg -devicequery wake_armed nothing shows up?
>
> Is my computer being taken over?
>
> What's my next trouble shooting step? perhaps exorcism?
>
> Got any ideas ???? on this one?
>
>
>
From: "Bill" eschol1948 AT Gmail DOT COM FIX on 26 Jan 2009 12:08
Do you have "automatically reboot" set for system failure in system
properties? (Right click Computer, Properties, Advanced System Properties,
Advanced, Start up and Recovery, Settings) It is the default setting. So,
unless you changed it, you most likely had a system failure and it
automatically rebooted. No telling what brought it out of sleep though,
could have been anything from a voltage spike to a hacker. Check the event
log for the time it happened and see if you see anything unusual. Check the
router log, if it is connected to a router, for anything unusual. Any
events set to run on a schedule such as defrag? Connected to a WHS and you
checked Wake this Computer for backup?

And no, don't think you need an exorcism, something woke it up, then caused
a system failure, which caused the reboot.

BullDawg
Team Geezer
Team Tribbles
Associate Expert

"Kue2" <Kue2(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OHBWl38fJHA.1252(a)TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>I put the computer to sleep about an hour & forth-five minutes
>ago.........I
> was having a snooze on the bed.
> I woke up & was lying in bed, when I saw the computer come out of sleep
> mode
> on it's own & it went to the desktop.
> This is where it gets really weird. After sitting at the desktop for about
> a
> minute the next thing I knew the computer re-booted all by itself
> It booted to the menu then carried on. It ended up at "start windows
> normally" the f-8 screen. I got out of bed & hit the enter key.
> Win7 then booted to the desktop....................what do you make of
> that?
> I ran powercfg -devicequery wake_armed nothing shows up?
>
> Is my computer being taken over?
>
> What's my next trouble shooting step? perhaps exorcism?
>
> Got any ideas ???? on this one?
>
>


From: Bobby Johnson on 26 Jan 2009 12:26
You do know that Tribbles were trouble on NCC 1701? Ask
Captain Kirk!


Bill wrote:
> Do you have "automatically reboot" set for system failure in system
> properties? (Right click Computer, Properties, Advanced System Properties,
> Advanced, Start up and Recovery, Settings) It is the default setting. So,
> unless you changed it, you most likely had a system failure and it
> automatically rebooted. No telling what brought it out of sleep though,
> could have been anything from a voltage spike to a hacker. Check the event
> log for the time it happened and see if you see anything unusual. Check the
> router log, if it is connected to a router, for anything unusual. Any
> events set to run on a schedule such as defrag? Connected to a WHS and you
> checked Wake this Computer for backup?
>
> And no, don't think you need an exorcism, something woke it up, then caused
> a system failure, which caused the reboot.
>
> BullDawg
> Team Geezer
> Team Tribbles
> Associate Expert
>
> "Kue2" <Kue2(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OHBWl38fJHA.1252(a)TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> I put the computer to sleep about an hour & forth-five minutes
>> ago.........I
>> was having a snooze on the bed.
>> I woke up & was lying in bed, when I saw the computer come out of sleep
>> mode
>> on it's own & it went to the desktop.
>> This is where it gets really weird. After sitting at the desktop for about
>> a
>> minute the next thing I knew the computer re-booted all by itself
>> It booted to the menu then carried on. It ended up at "start windows
>> normally" the f-8 screen. I got out of bed & hit the enter key.
>> Win7 then booted to the desktop....................what do you make of
>> that?
>> I ran powercfg -devicequery wake_armed nothing shows up?
>>
>> Is my computer being taken over?
>>
>> What's my next trouble shooting step? perhaps exorcism?
>>
>> Got any ideas ???? on this one?
>>
>>
>
>
From: Kue2 on 26 Jan 2009 13:55
Bill thanks for the tips!

I enabled log for Linksys router, never knew their was one. Reliability
monitor log stated "The previous system shutdown at 7:28:53 PM
on ‎25/‎01/‎2009 was unexpected." no help there.
Event log :Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
Date: 25/01/2009 7:32:13 PM
Event ID: 41
Task Category: (63)
Level: Critical
Keywords: (2)
User: SYSTEM
Computer: Hugh-PC-Win7
Description:
The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error
could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power
unexpectedly.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power"
Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" />
<EventID>41</EventID>
<Version>2</Version>
<Level>1</Level>
<Task>63</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000002</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-01-26T00:32:13.843750000Z" />
<EventRecordID>13640</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Hugh-PC-Win7</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="BugcheckCode">0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="BugcheckParameter">0x0</Data>
<Data Name="SleepInProgress">true</Data>
<Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

no schedules set.
no backup set.
This does not occur when I put Vista to sleep using same machine. Duel boot
menu.
Vista 64 & Win7 64.


"Bill" <eschol1948 AT Gmail DOT COM FIX IT> wrote in message
news:uasILj9fJHA.5844(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Do you have "automatically reboot" set for system failure in system
> properties? (Right click Computer, Properties, Advanced System Properties,
> Advanced, Start up and Recovery, Settings) It is the default setting.
> So, unless you changed it, you most likely had a system failure and it
> automatically rebooted. No telling what brought it out of sleep though,
> could have been anything from a voltage spike to a hacker. Check the
> event log for the time it happened and see if you see anything unusual.
> Check the router log, if it is connected to a router, for anything
> unusual. Any events set to run on a schedule such as defrag? Connected
> to a WHS and you checked Wake this Computer for backup?
>
> And no, don't think you need an exorcism, something woke it up, then
> caused a system failure, which caused the reboot.
>
> BullDawg
> Team Geezer
> Team Tribbles
> Associate Expert
>
> "Kue2" <Kue2(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OHBWl38fJHA.1252(a)TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>I put the computer to sleep about an hour & forth-five minutes
>>ago.........I
>> was having a snooze on the bed.
>> I woke up & was lying in bed, when I saw the computer come out of sleep
>> mode
>> on it's own & it went to the desktop.
>> This is where it gets really weird. After sitting at the desktop for
>> about a
>> minute the next thing I knew the computer re-booted all by itself
>> It booted to the menu then carried on. It ended up at "start windows
>> normally" the f-8 screen. I got out of bed & hit the enter key.
>> Win7 then booted to the desktop....................what do you make of
>> that?
>> I ran powercfg -devicequery wake_armed nothing shows up?
>>
>> Is my computer being taken over?
>>
>> What's my next trouble shooting step? perhaps exorcism?
>>
>> Got any ideas ???? on this one?
>>
>>
>
>
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